Releasing What Binds You

A mindful body scan, noticing and releasing, expanding and softening with the breath. In this mindful practice of self-attention, we see the things that bind us and gently release their hold. Disentangling their threads to create more ease and freedom in the body, even if only for this moment, this place. A gentle nourishing practice to return to again and again.

Music: Chris Collins

Reviews

I needed this very much and the Universe provided! I am at peace. I am freeing from attachment to things.
Abandoned at birth- I have attached to things. And now I am being made free by letting it go. At 69 years old and my wife and I are no longer safe in Texas after this Nov. 5th Presidential election. We are moving and moving on. I am letting go of all the stuff. I am brave and finally beginning to understand that attachment to things is a thing of the past and not who I am.
I no longer need things to be comforted. I am “attaching” to myself- learning to love myself. Healthy attachment or maybe better to say healthy connection with myself is healing and freeing.
When I began to visit Insight Timer regularly, I would read and hear over and over that “attachment causes suffering” and “all suffering is because of attachment. “

And I have been told I never attached to my mother and this is important because it defines all relationships and my ability to connect or bond.

And that “things or stuff” became my comfort. Have you ever tried to let go of what you are bonded to? That’s not like letting go of something you found pretty or whimsical or picked up as a keepsake on a trip….
Breaking bonds is tough to do, and scary and feels like everything will be lost, I will be LOST. Like if I was an astronaut tethered to the outside of the Space Station and suddenly became “detached” and thus would most likely mean I’d be LOST forever. Lost in the vastness, completely alone, unable to rescue myself, faced with certain death, utter aloneness and abandoned forever.
The terrifying thing / the thing that terrified me is that sense of abandonment. The things, the stuff -it feels like, to let it go is ME doing the abandoning. I feel guilt and a very strong pull to “rescue” the objects I am throwing away?

Leaning into that fear, feeling that terror… this is what I experience, with every start at going through the stuff, and letting some items go. And I admit to attempt after attempt and the ensueing panic and paralysis… and utter failure to make a dent in it all.
And I am not talking about giving away fancy clothes that are out of style, (none of which ever appealed to me) or an expensive tv or sterio or a piece of furniture. I’m talking about letting go of plies of newspapers, saved yogurt containers, old t-shirts and those shoes and rubber garden boots that I have literally glued back together- more than once!

This sounds really nuts! I sound like I’m a sick, crazy person.
There I was, just now, about to go into self shame. I am immediately recognizing this…
And instead:, I choose this statement:

I am loving myself and making ROOM for me to BREATHE.

I am loving myself and making ROOM for me to BREATHE.

I am loving myself and making ROOM for me to BREATHE.

What if the scenario flipped? What if the metaphor of being tethered to the outside of the Space Station is really the opposite? What if it’s me right now, stuck out there, struggling and yes-all alone and yet unable to free myself from being chained to this huge albatross? This huge thing I am attached to is dragging me aimlessly. I am exhausted, frustrated, helpless!
What if the scary, accidental, catastrophic “detachment” -the breaking from and being “cut loose” is actually me choosing to let go of the years and years of accumulated stuff I am finally able to be free of and that the breaking of this bond from the Space Station is what is going to create the rescue?
The healing? The REAL FREEDOM?

Yes! The healing! Yes! The freedom! And YES, the rescue! I am rescued by the cutting of the bond, the binding, the prison that has locked me up, tied me to, trapped me in, SUFFERING! The “stuff” that at one time served to comfort, insulate, and hide me, to keep me safe and help me feel “loved” has now served its twisted purpose. And I no longer need it. I no longer seek this empty loop of hoarding, shaming, hiding and excusing.
I seek to be free! I seek to be present and unencumbered by past baggage.

I breathe and let go. Far from dreading and wringing my hands, I welcome the RELEASE!
I am released. I am releasing all of it and in so doing, I am free!
I am free.

Thank you Henny Flynn. I am very grateful. Thank you for letting me share this, for listening to me. I bless you and send you my love with a thankful heart!♥️

“I release what binds me. I am open to the flow.”

I have done this practice just before bedtime. My shoulders and back were so tense but I feel relaxed now and my mind is at ease.
Thank you. I also really enjoy your voice tone and easy guidance. I feel good...will come back repeatedly. 🤗